Hopefully everyone had a chance to check out Google's homepage yesterday, which featured 16 different "Google Doodle" shout-outs to Roger Hargreaves, the creator of the icon Mr. Men and Little Miss books.
Labels: Google, Illustrations
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Just keep hitting that Refresh button...
Hopefully everyone had a chance to check out Google's homepage yesterday, which featured 16 different "Google Doodle" shout-outs to Roger Hargreaves, the creator of the icon Mr. Men and Little Miss books.
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posted by Yulianka at 8:10 AM
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Children's Book Illustrator Tasha Tudor dies at 92
The New York Times has an obituary up for Tasha Tudor, a well-known children's book illustrator who died last Wednesday at age 92. Tudor was a famously colorful character who chose to live as though she had been transported back to the 19th century. (She claimed to be the reincarnation of a sea captain’s wife who died in the 1840s, and that her old-fashioned lifestyle was an effort to replicate her earlier life.)Tasha Tudor is best remembered for her illustrations for Clement C. Moore's 'Twas the Night Before Christmas and several titles by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Labels: Illustrations, Obituaries
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posted by Yulianka at 10:25 AM
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Monday, November 26, 2007
A swift (visual) punch to the eye
Slate is currently featuring an entertaining but much too short slide show about the evolution of children's book art from the dull "improving" stories of the mid-19th century to the weirder and more dynamic world of 20th-century children's classics. Unfortunately, such a tiny collection (only twelve images, and two of 'em are Sendak pictures) means that Slate's story covers less than one artist per decade*.*We were sorry to see that images from author/illustrators Peter S. Newell, author of The Slant Book, and Norman Lindsay, author of The Magic Pudding, didn't make the cut.
Above image from "Goop Tales Alphabetically Told", by Gelett Burgess, 1904
Labels: Children’s Books, Illustrations, newspaper articles
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posted by Yulianka at 8:55 AM
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